Word: grinds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...open relay, which Yale won. It is worthy of mention that the crowd gave Hutter the greatest ovation not when he took the 220 in record time, not when he took the 100 in record time, but when he pulled through with the second in the quarter-mile grind...
...school affairs of San Antonio, Tex. are turbulent. They are so turbulent that the Board of Education has had three presidents in 14 months. San Antonio teachers, whose pay was cut 38% in 1932, chafe under a six-hour-a-day grind in classes, monthly salaries of $75 to $160. One board president ordered teachers not to attend public dances or drink alcohol. School buildings are in disrepair. San Antonio high schools are in danger of being dropped from affiliation with the State Committee on Classified and Accredited Schools because of overcrowding. Last fall San Antonio's teachers threatened...
...long as the lawmaking mills grind, the fog of uncertainty mocks the industrial planner. Business needs more than a mere breathing spell from legislative experimentation. It needs positive, reliable assurance that the complicated terms and conditions under which it must function are finally determined, subject only to an unmistakable public demand for their amendment. As it is, the businessman is the subject of more legislative concern than the criminal. The latter enjoys far less uncertainty of the laws prescribing his operations. The criminal laws are stabilized...
...group is the team itself. Few students know the actual drudgery that goes into the building of a great gridiron machine. Beginning early in September every man on the squad, and many that did not make the Varsity, worked for over three hours a day in a hard, bruising grind on the practice fields. They worked, and it is the hardest kind of physical labor, for most of the fun is reserved for the Saturday games; and they did more. Their whole lives for the fall months revolve around thoughts only of football. Yet all are required to keep grades...
...sisters to give him their shares in the establishment, got the bank to extend the mortgage, rigged up a tractor out of a Model T Ford and part of an old truck. Before the year ended, he had 69 acres under cultivation, 1,100 chickens, a grist mill to grind his neighbors' grain. In his first year out of high school, where he had stood fourth in his class, Farmer Bristow cleared $725. In his second, he expects to do twice as well, cut his mortgage in half...